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- Dahlberg, Annika
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Contesting views and changing paradigms : the land degradation debate in Southern Africa
- 1994
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study deals with issues of environmental change and degradation, with special reference to Southern Africa. Over the last couple of decades this debate has become quite heated. The aim of this paper is to clarify contrasting opinions, and to describe the more far-reaching shifts in scientific thinking. This is done by discussing definitions of the processes involved, the commonly used indicators and ascribed causes of degradation and the importance of time and space, especially in the context of the variability and heterogeneity which characterises the semi-arid environments. The value of interdisciplinarity is highlighted throughout the paper.
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When the grass is gone : development intervention in African arid lands
- 1991
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses some of the consequences of development interventions for ordinary people, and some of their environmental concomitants. The contributors all raise new questions of how to redeem the people who live in the arid lands from their present predicament and how to enable them to manage their own future. Many of the insights have been sharpened by ideas well-known to peasants and pastoralists, but seldom discussed among policymakers.
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